Ky944TurboNewbie

I had a small leak on my rear cam tower gasket and oil was getting on the headers and smoking. I replaced the rear cork cam tower gasket and now my small leak has become a larger leak. I may need to do this again. Any hints/tips?

Since I am doing this with the cam tower in the car, there is very little room to get the torque wrench in there. I think my problem may actually be that the tight fit caused the rubber behind the cam tower to put more pressure on the torque wrench and and make me think it hit the 7 lbs before it actually did. Therefore I must not have enough torque on the bolts.

How do you do this with it in the car?

Thanks,

Michael

86 951

V2Rocket

Did you grease the gasket before putting it on? Also, 6ftlbs is a pretty light twist of the wrist, you shouldn't need a torque wrench for that...

Ky944TurboNewbie

I just wanted to make sure I didn't over torque it. Last thing I would want to do is strip anything. I used hylomar on both sides of the cork gasket.

44cupmaster

the best way to make that a permanent fix is to make your own gasket with gasket paper . that cork stuff is junk .

xsboost90

torque wrench..hahha. Put the gasket in- tighten it with thumb and pointer finger until all three are snug. Drive car, then retighten. The cork heat cycles and gets soft, making them leak again. May take a drive or two to get it to stay tight. Torque is not the issue. Actually if you try to over tighten right away it'll just split the gasket. All else fails, Lindsey Racing sells a non-cork gasket.

John_AZ

RL member massive put a few DIYs on RL.

Few use the forum:
https://rennlist.com/forums/diy-submission-forum-135/

Here is the cam cork gasket DIY by massive:

http://www.944foot2thefloor.blogspot...ng-gasket.html

John

Ky944TurboNewbie

I wish mine were open like the one in the massive DIY. Much tighter on my 86 turbo. The engine harness is totally in the way.

F18Rep

My method... evolved over several events. Car up (wheels maybe 10 inches of the ground). Three small bolts - throw two of them away, and buy two m6 studs about 1 inch long and two new nuts. Get the cup and old gasket off. (From under the engine) Insert two studs, just thread them in. Hang the new gasket (which I think are perfectly fine) on the two studs. Hang the cup and engine hanger on the two studs - they will hold onto things temporarily. Put on a couple of nuts, then the last bolt. snug them up. done. Its a pain but doing it twice from above sucketh...Bruce